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Date:	Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:30:48 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Rexx printing control ?

In <40ECE69F.3F9D@peterskye.com>, on 07/07/04
at 11:16 PM, Peter Skye said:

>*and* I want to put a Preface on the first page only, so the report looks
>like this (view the following using a fixed-width font):

> OS/2 Radio for Wednesday July 7 2004

> Host: Webfoot The Duck
> Time Period: 1100-1500
> Special Guest: Ann Dowling
> Sponsors: S_____, C_____, Pepsi
> Hot Clock: C

> Music I.D. OS/2 Topic Topic Host Start Time
> ========== ========== ========== ===========
> 7418 JFS A______ 11:18:47:02
> 8311 Hobbes J________ 11:23:10:11
> etc.

>but subsequent pages would not have the preface, they would just have the
>column headings. Can Mesa 2 do this?

It could be done with REXX scripting. The standard headers and
smartfreeze are not capable of doing what you want. You are asking for
realitively complex word processing features. This would be easy in a
real word processor such as WordPro or Describe.

>I missed that. So I would read my database, extract the desired data
>into a CSV file, then run Mesa 2 using a report-specific workbook that
>contains a Rexx script which reads the CSV file and prints the report and
>then exits. Yes?

That would work. You could also send your data to Mesa via DDE or the
clipboard.

Steven

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